On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 13:04, I wrote:
> $news =~ s/^\[\*\] (.*)$/$1/;
sorry, this is probably better
$news =~ s/^\[\*\] //;
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Hi,
if all you want to do is remove the '[*]' why not do:
s/^\[\*\]\s+//;
R
At 16:03 23/10/2002 -0800, Andres L. Figari wrote:
Hello,
I am having toruble getting my regex to work >:^(
The file I'm parsing for headlines looks like this
[*] headline 1
[*] headline 2
etc ...
here is my perl
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 01:03, Andres L. Figari wrote:
> [*] headline 1
> [*] headline 2
ok
> $news =~ s/^(\[\*\]) + ([^W.*])/$2/;
This won't match, and thus no substitution will happen.
try:
$news =~ s/^\[\*\] (.*)$/$1/;
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Hello,
I am having toruble getting my regex to work >:^(
The file I'm parsing for headlines looks like this
[*] headline 1
[*] headline 2
etc ...
here is my perl attempt at stripping out the [*] part of each line.
open (NEWS,$news_file) || die "cannot open news.txt: newsfile = $news_file";
wh
